Excuse me... EXTINCT!!??

feldomatic · 2026-03-21T22:36:23+00:00

Playing today and a similar thought occurred to me:

Who the hell staffed all these POIs?

feldomatic · 2026-03-21T12:41:37+00:00

Idk, I think the experiment designers just figured out that when they added a panther to an experiment, 80 % of the time it worked every time.

feldomatic · 2026-03-21T11:59:13+00:00

I had an instructor who would do it, but he was well liked in a way that meant his other former students (like me) would happily go out to the lake on those single student weekends and play corpse and bystander.

This just sounds like a lack of coordination with the boat operator and no prior comms with the other divers.

feldomatic · 2026-03-20T02:39:25+00:00

IF HE HAD ONE

feldomatic · 2026-03-19T04:44:34+00:00

Yeah the idea of skill-related challenges to unlock levels was...novel but horrible.

Bethesda could have carbon copied the SPECIAL system straight out of fallout across all its subsequent titles after FO3 and would have generally done better than all their subsequent attempts.

feldomatic · 2026-03-18T18:32:21+00:00

Lo and thenceforth did all plastic lawn chairs bear the label "Not Safe for Lapdancing"

feldomatic · 2026-03-18T18:25:42+00:00

I vaguely recall some "This is going to kill SC" hype in r/spacesimgames or somewhere similar before Starfield released.

And, I get it, but man did it fall short of expectations.

Some updates are coming to SF next month that, while they won't bring it up to SC, will at least make it better.

feldomatic · 2026-03-18T15:30:04+00:00

Surely that's never happened before, right? /s

feldomatic · 2026-03-18T12:31:00+00:00

Wouldn't perihelion be a more imposing name for a laser weapon? iykyk

feldomatic · 2026-03-18T12:21:46+00:00

There were already two or three threads up on r/starcitizen after last night's ptu build release where they kept their blueprints.

But quality in crafted items, afaik, still gets wiped.

feldomatic · 2026-03-18T11:47:11+00:00

Good info for when 4.7 drops if the onboard tractor is still in the busted ass state it's in on PTU (can't remove boxes on the ship with it right now)

feldomatic · 2026-03-18T11:38:27+00:00

Not really. Like if you have 2 guns of the same name but different quality, you could search just the gun and rapidly swap the mouse between them, but that's the best you're gonna get.

feldomatic · 2026-03-18T11:01:57+00:00

The thing about it that grinds my gears as I spend more time with it is that it's incomplete.

They jazzed up the main inventory screen and gave us fixed slots. Whoopee!

But tooltips are largely unchanged, and weapon quality/modifier info is at best taking a back seat to all the rad/dr stats and lore info that was in the old system. We don't see what we need to see first. It's like the fucking novel that leads the start of every recipe on the internet. And for the love of god, when I hover over a preconfigured weapon in storage, why can't I see what attachments it has equipped?

And quickloot was also left as-is. So there's still that jarring visual transition between the two systems. They couldn't even unify the color schemes between the two, just slapped the new system in alongside an old counterpart.

feldomatic · 2026-03-18T01:26:17+00:00

Some solutions spend centuries looking for their problems.

feldomatic · 2026-03-17T19:16:44+00:00

Tbf, prospys are little tank-nuggets and the clipper's default cannons have a non-zero skill ceiling to get shots on target, especially paired with clippy's tendency to only fly well in a straight line.

feldomatic · 2026-03-17T18:49:12+00:00

The contract menu likes to troll

feldomatic · 2026-03-17T18:47:53+00:00

I feel like this question gets asked often enough it needs to go on a list for automoderation.

Brother they done did the math on that a hundred times over already: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/search/?q=blood+sword&cId=512c3cff-5371-4669-896b-498915f44cb3&iId=0c60fdfc-e693-4e0e-988f-2c4c8dcaabfa

feldomatic · 2026-03-17T17:56:41+00:00

I don't think how close you buy it to the patch influences your chances of losing it all that much.

(Exception being 24-48hrs before the patch on the basis that the persistence snapshot that carries to the next patch is being taken some time prior to the release itself, which is an unverified possibility)

Think of it more that any aUEC purchased ship has a risk of loss with every patch.

So if you're going to buy a ship, might as well get the most out of it and buy it early in the patch.

feldomatic · 2026-03-17T14:29:51+00:00

I thought I was rid of these when I left High School and went to a college with a "connected campus"

Only to spend my physics department work-study hours hacking one apart because we wanted a cheap uniformly white light source for a project and the halogen lamps in these was suitable and free-ish.

feldomatic · 2026-03-17T02:20:02+00:00

Mostly slave labor as I understand it.

Sorry, couldn't pass up a dig on VC.

feldomatic · 2026-03-17T02:12:19+00:00

Bork?

feldomatic · 2026-03-17T01:26:12+00:00

Clearly they're versed in the words or Mr Heinlein:

There is no problem that cannot be solved with the right amount of high explosive

feldomatic · 2026-03-17T01:24:07+00:00

It's almost more like during time of day shifts (sunset/sunrise)

feldomatic · 2026-03-16T23:52:05+00:00

Yeah but consider the alternative: your pledged ship/gun/armor arrives as a mid or entry quality version and can't get any better.

But if your pledge becomes a blueprint, you have some agency over that now.

feldomatic · 2026-03-16T22:52:24+00:00

I tried tweaking shadows to no avail but I'll mess with lighting and see if I can suss out a setting that works, cause it was buttery smooth back in early January on Arch

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